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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect … age on offspring human capital in terms of health and cognition. The analysis relies on mother fixed effects to allow for … on health weakens over time, while the cognition effect surges in early adolescence. Further analysis suggests both …
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. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of child nutrition and health on their cognitive achievements measured … there is a positive association between child nutrition (measured by height-for-age WHO z-scores) and cognitive achievements … and nutrition have improved and primary school enrolments have increased. This study uses longitudinal data of 1813 strong …
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In this paper, the diversity of job characteristics and wage gaps in the Spanish hotel industry due to different … size and wages in the hotel industry. The second aim was to account for wage premia earned by workers employed by larger … controlling for the workers' observable characteristics and the other determinants of our wage equation, a substantial wage …
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Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push-distance interactions provide relevant and exogenous variation for identification. Results suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP...
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I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in employment, triggered for...
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and health. The human capital literature suggests an important role for these variables in explaining wage patterns … to what extend wage differentials across European countries are explained by differences in education, actual experience … wages, the relationship between wages and health is less clear-cut. What makes it most difficult to disentangle these …
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